Ted Cruz Reveals What he’d do if Elected President – And it’s Even Worse Than You Thought

[TexasTowelie]

With the midterm elections approaching, Texas senator Ted Cruz penned an editorial in USA Today this week detailing what he’d like a potential Republican-controlled Congress to prioritize in 2015. As you might expect, the list is full of Tea Party staples: repealing Obamacare, cutting taxes, and slashing funding for federal programs. What makes Cruz’s list of Congressional priorities interesting is that it essentially previews what a Cruz 2016 presidential campaign agenda might look like–and it’s not pretty.

As Ted Cruz’s multiple trips to Iowa have suggested, Texas’ junior senator is all-but-confirmed to be running for president in 2016. Though his latest editorial is seemingly a guide for the next Congress, it reads as a list of Cruz’s own personal ambitions. He even references what he believes a newly elected Republican president will do in 2017.

Cruz’s list hits all the talking points he’s perfected over the last two years he’s spent in the Senate running his pre-presidential campaign. He’s big on cutting taxes, arguing for a regressive flat tax to replace all existing taxes. Cruz also wants to abolish the IRS, instead wanting to make taxes “so simple that they could be filled out on a postcard.” If you’re worried about how the government will be able to fund programs that help millions of Americans under a Cruz tax system, don’t be–he also wants to slash government funding for everything, so there won’t be any programs left to fund.

A Cruz presidency would also leave the environment in total disrepair. Cruz’s big suggestion for revitalizing the job market is to get rid of all environmental regulations and open up more jobs in fossil fuel for everyone. He is in favor of building the Keystone XL pipeline, and wants to open up even more protected land for oil exploration. Additionally, Cruz is a proponent of fracking, which he calls “innovative energy technology,” and he wants to stop fracking from being “handcuffed by the federal government.” And of course, he also wants to get rid of regulations on coal production, too.

Read more: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/20582/ted-cruz-reveals-hed-elected-president-even-worse-thought

[Scootaloo]

1. So in other words, a standard Republican platform

And in other other words, the sort of platform Democrats keep wanting to find "middle ground" with, rather than, y'know, opposing it.

[earthside]

2. I still don't see how Cruz can run for President.

No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution

I have listened since 2008 from Tea Party-Republicans that a guy born in Hawaii is somehow not eligible to be President of the United States, so how can a guy actually and admittedly born in Canada be eligible?

So, the Cruz reactionary agenda if he got elected President mirrors the duplicity and deceit surrounding the circumstances of his birth. No surprise, huh?

[world wide wally]

3. I assume he is for deregulating banking too.

It just boggles my mind how working stiffs buy into this bullshit.

[Gothmog]

4. Carnival Cruz is a nut case

[wandy]

5. As we become the party of NO..............

After veto after veto ranging on everything form the XL pipeline, to repeal of minimum wage, to a national religion to every sperm is sacred.
Keep the GOP objective in mind.

In other words, the GOP is ready to paint its opponents as unwilling to compromise or get things done.

[spanone]

6. he's an evil clown. america occasionally elects an evil clown.